On 11/09/2012 15:19, SoarTronic team wrote: > There were several gliders nearby, so if the communication was lost with > the closest, the nearest indication was automatically changed to the > "new" nearest one, I suppose. IMO only thing that works, is the FLARM > traffic shown on map, like XCSoar or graphical FLARM display. Then you > should be able to see all gliders near you, to improve > your situation awareness.
I still see the XCSoar Flarm display as a more of a tactical one than an alarm/safety display. But one situation where there is more information available from XCsoar than a standard Flarm "remote" LED display is when there are multiple Flarm equipped gliders in the immediate area. Perhaps the following feature would be useful: - A configurable "threat volume" in XCSoar. (Say 500m radius horizontally and 100m vertical separation from the XCSoar equipped glider). - A ring displayed on the XCsoar Flarm radar to illustrate the horizontal extent of the threat volume. - A display in XCSoar that indicates the number of Flarm targets inside the threat volume in an info box and/or on the XCSoar Flarm radar screen. Then when XCSoar shows 3 flarm targets in your immediate vicinity and you are only aware of 2 gliders, then you should be alerted to start looking for the missing one! Of course not all gliders are Flarm equipped. Even in a club where Flarm has been widely adopted years ago we have some gliders that are not equipped. (Eg New arrivals, visitors and a few members who don't believe in Flarm). There are also occasions when the Flarm in a particular glider stops working for some or other reason (eg Antenna faults, cable faults, blown fuses, battery failure, flarm unit failure and out of date software). So you can never assume that the information on the Flarm display represents ALL of the threats in the sky. > The development of Soartronic BT1 module started because of this accident. The adoption of Flarm by our club was also motivated in part by an accident in a local competition that resulted in two fatalities. I sympathise with your loss and commend your efforts to develop the technology. Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
